Flooding

[fitz19d]

From milliken police FB, I was able to get in this way to top off my saltwater tanks.


There is now one route to get in and out of Milliken. You must take WCR 46.5 (Green Street) west to WCR 19. WCR 19 south to WCR 38. WCR 38 west to WCR 13. WCR 13 south to WCR 34 or WCR 24 west to I-25. The main roads out of town (HWY 60, Hwy 257, and Two Rivers Parkway remain closed at this time and an estimated time for them to be reopened is unknown. In many cases the roads are badly damaged or washed away.


Pretty easy as many of the turns are blocked.

[Tinelement]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

[stoner01]

Damn

[merl]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Did you manage to get everything important off the ground before you had to leave?

[Glock Shooter]

We live in Eldorado Springs, probably the only rental home in the valley. We're about a mile from 93 about 2 to 3 miles from the town of Eldorado Springs. Thursday around 5pm it got really bad. We either experienced a Flash Flood or a dam broke as the water came rushing down the road and through our yard. We had knee deep water out front and the sump pump would not turn on so the basement crawlspace started filling. I have 3 kids, ages 5, 9, and 18, a wife, and a 96 year old grandmother in the late stages of multi-infarct dementia so needless to say, evacuating was the last thing I wanted to do.

We moved our bug-out bags to the back of the 4 Runner and positioned it along with the Tacoma on high ground ready to go. Lucky for us we're about 2 feet higher than the next property, they were 100% flooded out. By 7pm the water had risen and the water was 13 feet from the front door. My son and I shoveled like mad men, luckily we had a huge pile of gravel left over from a project and we made our stand. I made the kids sleep in their clothes and we readied to go. I stayed up until 4:30am monitoring the situation. The water in the crawlspace was 6" from the top and I still could not get the sump pump to turn on.

By sunlight I had 4" of room in the crawlspace and I started calling every hardware store between here and Thornton looking for a sump pump. I tried to post here but couldn't figure out any of the test, although I could hear the Jeopardy music in my head. Finally at 2pm Home Depot got a shipment of 200 sump pumps and I broke several speed laws getting there. There are about 25 people in front of me and nobody can tell us how many they have left. Then this 20something kid walks over and says "I have a sump pump and hose I purchased yesterday I'll sell" so I reply "Would you be selling the pump for more than you paid yesterday?" and he smiled and said "Yes". Several people on the line looked like they wanted to jump the rope and rip his throat out so I said "You know...in some parts of the country you'd get shot for trying to profit from a disaster" He tries to shrug it off and says "Glad that's not here in Boulder" to which I say "Are you sure?" he then proceeds to run out of the store and I got a round of applause from the crowd and several pats on the back.

The pump is still going.....just a few more inches.

[trlcavscout]

7 news just reported that the 4 dead are still dead.

[10mm-man]

7 news just reported that the 4 dead are still dead.

Were they expecting Zombies or something?

[Great-Kazoo]

7 news just reported that the 4 dead are still dead.

Any word on Generalissimo Francisco Franco ?

[trlcavscout]

Still hoping the boulder hippies washed in to Kansas.

[stoner01]

Still hoping the boulder hippies washed in to Kansas.

At least they got a bath.